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Birthday November 7, 1905

• The temperature on November 7, 1905 was between 3.1 °C and 10.8 °C and averaged 5.9 °C. There was 4.8 hours of sunshine (52%). The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the south. Source: KNMI
• Koningin Wilhelmina (Huis van Oranje-Nassau) was from 1890 till 1948 sovereign of the Netherlands (also known as Koninkrijk der Nederlanden)
• In The Netherlands , there was from August 1, 1901 to August 16, 1905 the cabinet Kuijper, with Dr. A. Kuijper (AR) as prime minister.
• In The Netherlands , there was from August 17, 1905 to February 11, 1908 the cabinet De Meester, with Mr. Th. de Meester (unie-liberaal) as prime minister.
• In the year 1905: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 5.5 million citizens.
  • January 22 » Bloody Sunday in Saint Petersburg, beginning of the 1905 revolution.
  • May 5 » The trial in the Stratton Brothers case begins in London, England; it marks the first time that fingerprint evidence is used to gain a conviction for murder.
  • May 15 » Las Vegas is founded when 110 acres (0.45km), in what later would become downtown, are auctioned off.
  • June 27 » During the Russo-Japanese War, sailors start a mutiny aboard the Russian battleship Potemkin.
  • November 18 » Prince Carl of Denmark becomes King Haakon VII of Norway.
  • November 21 » Albert Einstein's paper that leads to the mass–energy equivalence formula, E=mc², is published in the journal Annalen der Physik.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1903 » Ary Barroso, Brazilian pianist and composer († 1964)
• 1903 » Dean Jagger, American actor († 1991)
• 1903 » Konrad Lorenz, Austrian zoologist, ethologist, and ornithologist, Nobel Prize laureate († 1989)
• 1905 » William Alwyn, English composer, conductor, and educator († 1985)
• 1906 » Eugene Carson Blake, American minister and educator († 1985)
• 1908 » Marijac, French author and illustrator († 1994)